Transculturation in British art, 1770-1930 / edited by Julie F. Codell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Codell, Julie F.

Series:

British art. Global contexts

British art : global contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, British--Themes, motives.

Art, British.

Acculturation.

Art and society.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xvii, 289 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]

Summary:

In this contribution to scholarship on the colonial aspects of visual art, Codell (art history/Center for Asian Research, Arizona State U.) compiles essays that examine spatial forms in which transculturation across 'contact zones' was represented in and about the British Empire and in countries subject to British influence. International art historians offer interpretations of the production and reception of colonial-era images and image-makers, including portraits of a British baron in 18th-century Bengal, representations of Othello and Desdemona in Victorian England, photographs of aboriginal women in Canada, sculptures of Congolese peoples, John Singer Sargent's portrayals of British males, and a UK founder of art museums in South Arica. Several of the numerous art illustrations are in color. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The art of transculturation / Julie F. Codell

Art's changing publics and politics : transcultural receptions. Baron of Bengal : Robert Clive and the birth of an imperial image / Romita Ray

Miniature paintings as transcultural objects? The John Norton and Peter Jones portraits / Kristina Huneault

The politics of transculturation : the life and art of John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) / Emily M. Weeks

The many shades of Shakespeare : representations of Othello and Desdemona in Victorian visual culture / Nancy Rose Marshall

"Bronzed and muscular bodies" : jinrikishas, tattooed bodies, and Yokohama tourist photography / Luke Gartlan

The camera and the contact zone : re-envisioning the representation of aboriginal women in the Canadian north / Susan Close

Te kai-hautu o te waka/Director of the canoe : the statue of Sir George Grey in Auckland / Mark Stocker

Ambivalent geographies : the British Concession in Tianjin, China, c. 1860-1946 / Dana Arnold

When art moves and multiplies : transcultural geographies. Divided objects of empires : Ottoman imperial portraiture and transcultural aesthetics / Mary Roberts

"A voice from the Congo" : Herbert Ward's sculptures in Europe and America / Kirsty Breedon

War and peace : Harry Bates's Lord Roberts memorial in London, Calcutta, and Glasgow / Jason Edwards

"Wonderful pieces of stage management" : reviewing masculine fashioning, race, and imperialism in John Singer Sargent's British portraits, c. 1897-1914 / Andrew Stephenson

Colonial nationalism and closer union : Hugh Lane in South Africa / Morna O'Neill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409409779

1409409775

OCLC:

746316068